Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 30, 1921, Page 8

‘Mary Pickford’s i ome Life Is Hap : ft ’ “Won't You Step Into My Parlor?” i —— Little Film 4 a Copyright 1921, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate and Hayden Talbot. On March 29th of this year, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair- banks celebrated their first wedding anniversary together. : = — 2 Mary Loves ie { Only immediate relatives end a few very dear friends were : ; i SER eae eek Her Home be f This momentous event was observed quietly at their Beverly Hills oe Z “eS 23 I I Ww ana tome, and babies. 1 home—a dream home of the kind that Mary has always longed for. j d - 5 : Par aie hare pes ee ieee : Her ambition to become a great movie actress was always sec- eee Bae 5 = : gt j 2 Se roe ee SEP Not a palace, mind you, with servants iis ondary to this yearning desire for a home—a home and babies. , : 3 & 4 i : in very ana great big mustrame i9 f 119 Mary, little Mary, has mothered Jack and Lottic Pickford ever the eye with tat r magaificence, r = 4 | since che can remember, because she always had to mother somebody. Eithe - ‘ Aibine ive wanted was a ; And in her own life story, as told to Hayden Talbot, she reveals : : i ; Sige a ie wee Pisecpiai ad Baars, bat i I many things today that the public has never known before—the ‘ 1 i . é ; 6 tones and furnished in “exqui iy Ss homey, sincere ambitions that ‘disclose the real world’s sweetheart : hbo : an Fi g bs ee COE ; under her Klieg light malccup. 7 3 * Manan 4 a7 : ‘ , hill, commending a dotanes ae yN te = = : GES . of the surrounding country, fer 10 1 : | Ni ay ; ate me nothing stimulates (he imazina- 6 99 P : gt i - E ‘ * ticn more than to inok out “pon a oy / 6 Te), ; r 2a ‘ . : broad sweep of lIandseape \hrozgh unobstructed eyes. ‘ : ¥ = » Epa after dream ot just such } ; / a home ever since I was big cnough 1" As Told By : ; 3 to bulld castles in the alr, the droaa: + has at it come true. _ £ Ht ; M A RY P I Cc K F re) R D a co . : es ee: ‘ r . : ; pe . ¥ BR Ss anh We stil work hard, Dougias f . ~ . < , > 3 begs When engaged in picture-making, ; 2s . : J . a oe ¥ hte Soci retires at Began No / > : “2 ea 4 < . Pty Photoplayer can possibly succeed — ‘ To HAYDEN TALBOT eae isiack and keep late hourr. | } a Pie i 3 c : oA The one thing the motion picture 1 5 = = = = = = f ; i is 4 - Mea oy : 2 . - : Patrons must have in ‘heir heroes ‘ 2 Cy Shots y : % + ct " {ARs and heroines ig Mouth. Theatre- 5 HE house where Mary Pickford a . es Ss ee r i ake 7 ae Cs geers demand it, also, but in ihe and her husband, Douglas theatre It is casfer to camoutaze tr Fairbanks, live, is situated : wrinkles than before the pitiless cye - i a high hill orerlookitg lower hill 3 . i oor of the camera. And we all know, . 5‘ gr even in the case of stage stars, how and a broad valley in the distance ‘ : " > often women and men zo on and on This valley 15 a combination bad 4 F long after their charm has Ieft ‘hem farm and residential section. inter. F ay v “ M E Pes — always pitiful. «pectacles of desire A. eet aeghRNe highways’ tend 4 i rn ee $ my nie ; 62685 triumphing over senge! ed mPDAs Dh Sho ec . - £5 ¢ ; y ee : j ; § er saa 4 SuMcient rest is absolutely necas- 5 electric railways k ‘ > : ‘ eR Sir : r tere ey ot) sory, and by snflletent rest ! mean Behind the Fairbanks home rire . : , ‘ ‘ i AS We ats: Spee i at least nine h Por myself, 1 £ os , 4 - : ¢ prefer ten. zs e ae ‘ / dat sf ‘ hac — TOT OE AT : ; Of course,-if it is vetwern ptturc t would b d to descr he " ei . 4 more hills, etern. green in their : x : : hours. Often we remain up architecture of the house, unless one f A = fairs. .. * A u aon " 2 midnight, ecpocially when entertain- called it typically modern Cali- . ing. fornian A combination of stue*c Real Home Folks s and shingle, it crowns the hill in In saying that we are real’ h the form of an L. Let us start in + : s “* poeple, I mean the statement lite:- ¥ the basement and make a tour of the ou. 4 3 . yh i 3 ries “lly, for we go out very little. When ‘ x ; 3 ; : te do go, it is ustially for an ex- a Rivahadle cel cbeatsl tary Ue) PT OR 3 pee ae . ~ ‘ é 4 vended trip, consisting of a motor \ accurate idea of the interior. "1 a yy Be : KS bs a 93 ete ‘our or+perhaps travel abroad. jn t ‘ Mary Has Beautiful Tapestries : shis feshion we get the diversion re- \ ? In the basement are storerooms, a A E ‘ is : i quired. iput ats ons: =e preter to : and bath for the laundress. Stairs i % : i : ¥ os “ Sie a, : : n-instrutent* many of ofr Srlents lead up to a hallway on.the floor . 5 i 2 bal F : - " a0, and occasionally we have an above. The house faces west ‘and $ g q . ¥ ners peonie “ie from eae! t ate ent Ks ‘ ; is . 7 : : t # ually when we have ests. o- ( Ne south, with the main entrance in the me Pe 4 3 o ' pe Be a oe atic) Aniscme have. tHe phonenes An bend of-the L. 3 be, Sa eae Ss - Wine ; im es 5 Py ant riany fine records. ‘here {s The main hallway takes the form 3 ee 3 ? ' ; tv a book in our entire colles- of an L, with stairs at one end wind 3 g tion that 1s not well thumbed, for ing e floor above. ‘This hall sh " 3 3 ‘ i : 3 both my husband cnd I are voracious way has a blue and white tiled floor, Ghies pxs me Z Aa ES , 4 ES “prom what 1 have on which are a few Oriental rugs xe ee : 4 4 , a 4 ; Af The niture is carved antique . Houcot Apr botne West ‘ yy Itallan, and there are some very : 3 ; simple, and we try io. keep. f cruly beautiful tapestries on the walls ae.) f <n ay ; i : SintensetGattenamany Tere. On the first floor are the living . <— F cg ; bi during the making of pine sun parlor, dining room et ; my oat 5 ie : onr stories are breakfast room and kitchen, Alsc for we live with ther papers cpantiye2 larga, back a ; 4 prove them, to perfect.ihem, to pol- porch, with refrigerator, the butler’s ; : Bn pe ; f ; 3 ioe 5 ish them—doing everything possible bedroom and bath, back hall and the , A Aten +e ° : {o give them the highest entertain- front porch, extending from the : 5 : e ment qualities possible to devise. 2: 3 hi ar : ae : } B ‘ EA €: nd in doing it all, westry to re- breakfast room around three sides of x ; r 2 : ; eS main just plain home folks. the house to the main entrance. Zee ae oa a % Iam determined that I shall never Wherever one looksthe eyes r Ab , : f ia 8 Sa face a camera after I get the first S ove, Mary, a the role of Aunt, and little Mary ‘ ‘“ j 5 upon original paintings by Frederick i Rin the 1 ee Mary H aif Mary, Rupp : E : ri oe intimation that my work is no longer Remington, Dutton and Russell. An- z ee ; : - a pleasing yeu Wy Buns Une sane rag ar ; ‘ Fone ae = 2 —- ~ + Beet es s : a at : . good thing about it is that there {s other very interesting feature of: the 4 oy <> a ¢efinite. way to determine thts. Place is the books. -The thing that mahogany. Perhaps it would be of : : When the box office returns from aay impressed me most about them was interest to note that there.are fire Mrs. Fairbanks. by Mik: Be BE Sis Re Bea pine Se inal ai cles pYSE: that they have all been read, which, ~ A 2 * - . Z 7 oat tee spe Bred a a Mie aoe eee HyReen “4 ie a floor lamps in it. There is a grand ee : » Sg I shall disband my organization and sad to say, is true of all libraries. piano of mahogany, numerous tables, Then there is a back hall, where ; BY cade “ oi go into a retiremen that will never { i ‘ desk, e he stai me ; é Resonate ee = ked by an re-emergence! eR Oh ee Sas desk, built-in bookcases, the stairs come up from the floor oF ‘ 5 be marked ‘by i Although there were ma’ with beautiful bindings, none these volumes have uncut pages. They all have a well read appea ance, and in cataloguing them they gave me the impression that they were chosen not because they were classics or best sellers or on account of the bindings matching the scheme of decoration, but rather because each one was wanted for some special reason or because they were old friends. Another thing that I noticed im- mediately was that there were books in every room and not only in the bookcases that were made for them There were books in the bedrooms, the bedside tables, books in the 's, books in the sun room, and lieve the only rooms in the house ut them ve: s en and here are a good personally phed are some three large davenports with luxuri- ous pillows, a big fireplace, lots of comfortable chairs and a heavenly view from French doors. You know, of course, that this Toom gan be transformed at a moment's notice into a projection room There are Oriental rugs on the floors. I think the breakfast room is par- ticularly attractive, with its painted furniture in cream color with bright flowers, and the chairs with their patent leather seats. It has long French windows opening out on the Porch, is comfortably fyrnished with green wicker, and looks out upon a * sweeping view below. The sun room is also very attrac tive, with its gay cretonnes and icker furniture and ferns and canary ds. It has a tiled floor on which there are a few Orientals There are only:two floors and a base- ment in the house. Upstair: main hall similar to the one below, furnished somewhat on the order of a li room The Mikado’s Ssrord below, and off of which the bed- rooms open. All told, there are fire , not including the sleeping The bedrooms all-have modern Painted furniture. Some in gray, some in sage green, some in blue and some in black, all gaily decorated with flowers and wreaths, ete. A dif- ferent color scheme is carried out for each bedroom, and the draperies and bedspreads are of taffeta to match the color scheme. Mr, Fairbanks’ suite consists of his bedroom, bath, large clothes closet, where his suits and picture wardrobe hang in rows; hallway and sleeping porch. The furniture is sage ereen, and there is an enormous black wardrobe, with brilliant parrots painted on it. Miss Pickford’s suit consists of the most beautiful bedroom™1 ever saw. It is done in lavender, with dull green furniture—a wolor combination that reminds one of a pansy bea. ss Pickford’s quarters are not © as extensive as her husband’s, the reason that {ft is planned ir the near future to build on a wing wtich will be for the little wonder tady's exclusiv bedroom, there isa bath and sleep- ing porch . A . R75 Go says that-she and Douglas Fairbanks are just “home folks.” Mary Here they are chown pen ably and apparently happily settled down on the steps of their home, Beverly Hills Mary’s ‘Niece, Little Mary Rupp, Doesn’t Want to Be a Movie Star The movies is nota profession that appeals particularly to Miss Pick- to explain the reason for this tremen- dous disapproval.on the part of her nicce for the profession which. had meant so much to the Pickford clan. She isa strange Uttle creature. Often she says things that absolutely amaze you, but everything she says proves she uses her brain and figures everything for herself—bvefore of life, are engaged common task. she has been taught any of the ridic- wulously unfair prejudices ‘against film folk that makes her shy away from the idea of entering the profession. It's simply, that she know8—from actual observation of what happens to me yery often, and to my sister and brother when they are ens-ge? in making pictures—that to become a film star calls for a capacity to take of the most gruelling & she has al- ready learned that success on the « screen can come qnly as a result of the hardest kind of hard. work. And any child of five who wontd wax enthusiastic over the prospect of downright drudgery—at any task or for any reward—would merit pity as being abnormal. together in a ford’s niece, little Mary Rupp. daughter of Mary’s sister Lottie. asked the question of the little girl, now aged six: Are you going;to be a film star when you grow up?” The child looked up at me with’ sudden indignation registering in her There wasn't any doubt My question had aroused the youngster . For a moment she sald nothing, and then with large empha- The Punishment of Being a Star Punishment She knows enough herself, her axe, to. know thet honesty and decency and every other good quality are present to as large an extent in Ty motion picture studio as in any other place in the world where men and women, recruited from all walks should—say—NOT!"" Later Miss endenyored It is possible—and this is a little confidence I have never yoiced for publication ‘before—that after f make my last picture I may go back into the theatre and essay one role in the spoken drama. Of course I have a natural distn- clination to foilow in the footsteps - of some of my sisters of filmdom-— who recently Srazenly traded on their screen popularity to attract audiences in the spoken drama. And if I ever do play a speaking, role gain, I should prefer to go under =n assumed name—if such a thing were possible—and by so doing prove that I wished my success or failure to be independent of my reputation <s a film actress. After all, in my case,.I was an actress for ten years in the spoken drama before I ever entered the mio- tion picture world—and I. have a right to want to go back to the Egot- lights once again. But over and above eyerythins = else the real happiness I like to think about is the home and family I hope the future will bring me. I have al- ways had a home and a family, of eourse—much more so, it seems to “me, than even girls.who are not tn the professional world. Ever since I enn remember there have been m: mother and Lottie and Jack for ine to think about and work for end be considerate of. And it has reaily been the happiest part of my life— dust havin= them.